Pencil marking and vending machine.



F. G. WILLIAMS. PENCIL MARKING AND VENDING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED JAN.27,1910.

Patented Apr. 16, 1912.

JIM

F. C. WILLIAMS.

PENCIL MARKING AND VENDING MACHINE.

APPLIUATION FILED JANZT. 1910.

Patented Apr. 16, 1912.

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orney,

F. C. WILLIAMS.

PENGIL MARKING AND VENDING MACHINE.

APPLIGATIOK FILED 11.21 1910.

1,023,540, Patented Apr. 16, 1912.

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.177 I)? for 1 A armgz FREDERICK c. WILLIAMS, or SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA.

PENCIL MARKING AND VENDING MACHINE.

Specification of Letters Yateflt;

. Patented Apr. 16,1912.

Applicatibn filed January 27, 1-910. Serial No. 540,369.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FREDERICK C. WIL- LIAMp, a citizen of the United States, residing in the city and county of San Francisco and State of California, have invented new and useful Improvements in Pencil Marking and Vending Machines, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a marking and vending machine, and particularly to a coinoperated vendin machine in which leadpencils pen-hol ers and like articles are marked or printed upon before delivery.

It is the object of this invention to provide a vending machine which requires the use of a coin, slug,- or other token in its operation, the function of which is to vend a variety of styles or grades of pencils or the like.

A further object is to provide means by which the operator or patron can mark the article to be vended before it is discharged from the machine with words or characters.

Another object is to provide a machine of the above description, which is simple in construction and positive in operation.

The invention consists of the parts and the const. uction and combination of parts as hereinafter more fully described and claimed, havingreference. to the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a side view of the invention, with casing and other portions broken away, showing the parts in a normal position. Fi "2 1s a front view, with casing removed and partly in vertical section. Fig. 3 is a detail of a type segment, Fig. 4 is a sectional detail of the coin chute. Fig. 5 is a detail in perspective of the inking roller and pencil carriage. Fig. 6 is a fragmentary detail of the type setting keys.

In the drawings. A is the bed-plate on which the machine is mounted, and which may be of any suitable construction. This bed-plate forms the bottom of a casing A, in which the machine is designed to be inclosed. which casing may he of any desired design. but not necessary to be shown in full in the drawings.

Standards A are mounted on the lied-plate A, through which a horizontally disposed shaft extends. 'lhis shaft 3 is arranged transversely across, the ma hine. and in addition to the support it receives in the standards 2. is further rarricd in the sides of the inclosing casing i\'. ()no end of the shaft 3 is provided with a crank or handle 4, by means of which the shaft may be rotated a limited distance in either direction, as later described.

A sleeve 5 is mounted on the shaft 3 and extends between the standards 2, as shown.

in Fig. 2, a flange 6 on one end of the A number of type-carrying disks or segments 7 are loosely mounted on the sleeve 5, between the standards 2, a portion of the peripheries of each segment being provided with characters or type 7 -7" as shown in Fig. 3. There are two sets of typeor print= ing characters on the periphery of each disk or segment, one set 7 on the forward portion of the segment arranged in order from the front end of the segment back to about its center, and the other or rear set 7, which are the printing characters are arranged in order from near the center of the segment back to its rearward portion. The latter set of characters are reversed, as shown in Fig. 3, so as to give an imprint that will show the characters in their proper positions. The forward set'of characters being employed for reading purposes only are ar-' ranged in the usual manner. In this case sixteen type-carrying segments are employed, each of whichcorresponds to the other, and each having two complete alphabets arranged on its periphery as just described. V

A thumb-key S is secured to each segment 7, and projects outside of the machine casing A through a suitable slot. Each segment 7 can be rotated on its hearing so as to adjust the position. of the printing type thereon in alinement on the printing line by moving a thumb-key 8. A spring 9 is interposed between each key 8 and the casing A in such a manner as to act as a brake. the tension or friction of which is sntlicient to momentarily retain the thumbkey and its corresponding segment in any position to which it may be moved on its hub. Normally the type segments and thumb keys stand in the position shown in l ig. l, with the foremost letters 7 of the forward sets of characters 7' registering with a Slut. 10 in the casing A. and the forward letters of the rearward sets of type characters 7 in alinement at the highest point 11 of the segments, which is termed the printing poiht. An ink pad l! is disposed above the segments 7 at a point forward of the printing point 11, upon and across which an inking roller 13 is adapted to pass. The inking roller 13 is provided with an axle at each end which extends through a slot in the upper end of the arms 14, which are disposed outside of the standards 2, and are loosely mounted at their lower ends on the shaft 3. Springs 15 exert a downward pull on the inking roller 13, and tend to retain the latter in close contact with the'ink pad 12, and a spring tends to retain the arms 14 in the position shown in Fig. 1, with the inking roller 13 on the ink pad 12. The inking roller 13 is caused to move across the ink pad 12,-and over the exposed portion of the type seg,- ments 7 on the printing line 11 by means of a lever arm 17, pivoted at 18 to the standard 2, and actuated by a rojection 19, on the shaft 3, as later descrlbed. The upper end of the lever-arm 17 contacts a pin 20 on ;move the stud 26 forward, the bar 22 is brought into engagement with the teeth 21,

the ink roller carrying arms 14, and is retained in contact therewith by means of a spring 20, which extends between the leverarm 17 and the arm 14 As a means of insuring that the type on the segment 7 will not be moved out of alinement at the printing line 11, by the impact of the inking rol er 13, or by any other reason, during the operation of, the machine, the segments are provided on their rearward portion with regular notches or teeth 21, corresponding to the number of printing characters on the peripheries of the segments. A bar 22 extends across the toothed portions of the segments, and is supported at each end on an arm 23, pivoted at 24 to the standards 2, and is normally held out of contact with the teeth 21 by means of a spring 25 which extends between the arm 23 and a stud 26 on the shaft When the latter is revolved so as to and 1S retained therein until the shaft 3 returns to its original or normal position as later described, the spring 25 permitting of the stud 2f; continuing its forward movement after the arms 23 have come to ['(r-i.

The pencils or like articles to be printed upon and vended are placed in a horizontal position in vertical racks or guides 28, ar ranged transverse to and above the rear portion of the segments 7, the lowermost pencil in each rack 28 resting upon a releasing device (later described), by means of which the pencil may he delivered to int-lined guides 29 down which the selected pencil is adapted to roll toward the printing line 11. As a means of insuring that the pencil li deposited in true alinemertt with the type on the printing line 11. acarriage30 is mounted l l l on the inking roller arms 11 in such manner as to travel therewith. the extruded purl i n lore the lever 43 and its connections to the of the carriage, being supported and slidable upon the horizontally projecting portions 2 of the standards 2; Upwardly projecting members 30 on the carriage 30 stop the downward movement of the pencil at the lower end of the inclined guides 29, and as the carriage 30 moves backward the pencil is shoved back up the inclined guides until the projections 30 pass under the pencil, whereupon the latter continues down and drops over the end of the inclined guides on to the carriage 30, in front of the projections 30. In this manner the pencil is kept clear of the printing line 11 until after the inking roller 13 has performed its function, and as the latter returns to its 'normal position on the ink-pad 12, the pencil is brought forward over the printing line 11 by the members 30 on the carriage 30. 1

The pencil is pressed. upon the printing characters by means of an impression bar 31 which is mounted upon arms 32, pivoted at 33, the bar 31 being actuated through a link-bar 3a which is pivoted at one end to the impression bar 31, and to a lug 35 on the shaft 3 at the other end, in'such-manner that as the shaft 3 is rotated in the direction of the arrow Z, Fig. 1, the impression bar will be drawn downward so as to bear against the pencil to be printed, and press it firmly upon the printing-type, so as to print and im press thereon the characters previously set up or arranged on the printing line. The under side of the impression bar 11 is grooved at 36, which groove is adapted to conform to the pencil, and further insure the latter being held in alinement with the printing line.

The pencil releasing mechanism is constructed as follows: The lowermost pencil in each rack 28, has its ends supported between two of the radial projections of starshaped members 38 which are mounted on horizontally disposed shafts 37 extending across the machine beneath each of the pen' cil racks 28. The outer end of each shaft 37 is provided with a five-toothed ratchet 39, rigidly mounted thereon, and adapted to be rotated by means of a pawl 4-0 carried by an arm 41 loosely mounted on each shaft 37. A link 42 connects each arm 41 to the lower end of a rocking lever 43, pivoted on a shaft 44. The upper end of each lever 43 is adapted to be tilted backward by means of a coin cylinder 45, as later described, so as to pull the arm 41 forward and, by reason at the pawl 10, rotate a shaft 37 a suflicient distance to allow the lowermost pencil to fall from the star-shaped member 38 to the in rlined guides 20, and permit the next penril above in the rack 28 to fall between the next space between the radial projections of the members 38. A spring 43' acts to renormal. position shown in Fig. l. The coin top orcylinder 45 is mt'uuited in the frame of the machine and is: adapted to be rotated by means of a crank handle it), The cylinder 4?) extends horizontally in front of the upper enda of the rocking levers t3. the latter projecting into circumferential slots 47 formed in the cylinder. A longitudinal slot or pocket 4b is disposed at right angles to each slot ii in the cylinder to. and is of such dimensions; a to readily at'feonnnodate a coin, usually a. tire-cent piece, which may be dropped therein through a suitable slot. not shown. in the machine casing A coil. spring 49. is attached to and wound on the cylinder ll). and comicctsi with the stationary frame of the machine. and normally tends to retain the cylinder in the position shown. in Fig. l, with the socket. registering with the coin slot in. the casing A.

The operation of the mechanism of the invention so far described is as follows: The patron or operator first Sets up or adjusts the position of the type characters on the printing line 11. by rotating the type segments 7 by means of the thumb keys as before described. the operator determining which (llllt'tttltlH are. on the printing. line by the characters exposed in the Slot l l. A coin is then inserted in the coin slot 48 in the cylinder -15. corresponding to the grade of pencil selected. and the cylinder turned by mean. of the crank elti. The coin hein transversely disposed across the circtnnferential slot 47. its upper edge contacts and presses the upper end of the corresponding rocking lever 43 backward thereby releasingthe selected pencil as before described. The pencil slides down the inclined guides 29 as before mentioned. as aoon as released. The cylinder 45 is here momentarily arrested and prevented from returning to its normal position. .=o as to prevent the, operator from releasing another pencil with the same coin. and also prevent the inr-rrtion of other coins until the function of the machine has been performed. This is accomplished by means of a pawl 50 which engages a ratchet or tooth 51 on the cylinder to. which tem- 'iorarily prevents the return of the cylinder 45. and at the same time permits the coin to fall out of the coin slot 48 into a chute 52. which leads to any suitable bank not shown. The operator then pulls the crank handle -l forward, which action causes the shaft 3 to rotate in the direction of the arrow Z. Fig.

1-. the projection 19 contacting the short end of the ltwer-ar1n 17. so as to rock the latter and cause the inking roll 13 and carriage 30 to move across the printing line l1 as before described. The inking roll 13 and carriage 30 are returned to their normal position by the spring in. as soon as the projection 19 is I"lt{tlS0(l from the lever-arm. The pencil has now been brought forward by the carl l l l l l l l l i, l l l l l l l l t riago 30, and supported on the latter just above the printing line ll. Continued pull on the hand-lever 4 draws the impression bar downward as hereinhefore disclosed so an to imprint the desired characters thereon. This forward movement of the shaft 3 also releases the pawl .30 from the cylinder l5 by reason of an cxtenaible connection 53 which connects the former with the latter as shown in Fig. l. The cylinder 1-5 is: then returned to its normal position by means: of the spring il The handle 4-, being" carried to the limit of its forward movement. which may be any desired form of stop. not shown. the operator then returns it to its normal position shown in Fig. l. Thelawluvard or return stroke of the lewr restores the im pres ion hal Eli, and the projection 19. to their normal position in readiness for another operation. and at the mine time uperates) certain mechanism for discharging the printed pen il from the machine and restores: the type-cai-rying segments to their normal position,

The pencil is removed by means of a rocking-arm at, piyotally mounted at its lower end. and provided with a head at its upper end which is adapted to contact the end of a pencil and shove it. forward t the outside of the machine, as follows: cam 55 is mounted on the shaft 3. one aide of which is on av plane at right angles to the axis of the shaft. and the other side is; disposed at an angle thereto. in such manner that as the Hi aft mores on the forward stroke. the. projecting roller no on the arm 54 travele along the straight side of the cam. thereby retaining the arm 54 in its rearward position. and tending to hncltle the spring 57. When the shaft 3 completes its forward movement. the roller 56 passes beyond the end of the cam 53. the spring; 57. in straightening. carrying the arm Til snfliciently forward. so that as the shaft 33 returns on its backward movement. the roller .36 is; engaged by the angu la r or inclined side of the cam 5:) which carrice; the upper end of the rocker arm Til, forward. so an to shove the pencil out through a. suitable opening in the casing A not shown. The spring 7. bein; distended. when the widest. end of the can] an is reached. it restore; the arm to the position shown in Fig. l. in readiness for another operation. A lilte cam 58 on the shaft 5. acts in a similar manner upon a bell-crank lever .39 so as to rock a lever lit). loosely fulcram-ed on the Shaft 3. The short end of the lever (30 is engaged by the hell crank 59. and the other end carries a horizontal portion till which extends across-the machine beneath the forwa rd portion of the type-carrying seg'menta 7. When the short arm of the lever on is carried downward by the hell crank 5t? on the return of the shaft 3, the outer end of the lever 60 and the portion (50 are raised upward so as to lift the segments '7 back to their normal position, shown in Fig. 1.

Any suitable disposition of the coins may be made after leaving the coin-head or cyl inder 45, as desired, but I prefer to subject them to the following described device for detecting slugs, spurious coins, and the like. The coin chute 52 is provided at any suitable point with a rocking levcrtil mounted on and pivoted to the back of the chute. The short arm of the lever is bifurcated, each fork being provided with a flange which extends through a slot in the chute, shown in Fig. 4. The lower fork and flange H2 normally projects in the path of the coin so as to temporarily prevent it passing on to the bank, the upper fork and flange 63 extending into the chute rearward of and above the coin held by the flange as. The long arm 61 is ct'mncctcd by a Wll 64 to a bell crank 65. Fig. l the long arm of which has a projection 66 which extends across and forward of the lower portion of the rocking levers t3. in such manner that as any one of the latter is rocked. an up ard pull will be transmitted to the long arm of the bifurcated lever (it through the bell crank This action causes the flange 62 to be lowered out of the path of the lowermost coin and permits it to continue down the chute, while the upper flange 6; is momentarily projected in front of the succeeding coin, and prevents its further movement until the lower flange 62 is again in position. In this manner any desired number of coins may be retained in the chute 52, and if the front of the latter be covered with t'ansparcnt material, and exposed, on the front of the machine, 'an attendant can detect the use of slugs and the like.

Having thus (lt'ttllbtltl my invention, what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent isl. A pencil and like marking device, including a circunit'crentially slotted seg mental case, a turnahlc shaft, a fixed sleeve through which the shaft is turnable, disk segments loosely mounted upon the sleeve, registering with the case slots and having keys projecting therethrough, said disks having duplicate sets of peripheral characters and said case having transverse slots through which corresponding characters may be simultaneously exposed.

2. A pencil and like marking device, including a circumfcrentially slotted segmental case, a turnable shaft, a fixed sleeve through which the shaft is turnahle, disk segments loosely mounted upon the sleeve. registering with the case slots and having keys projecting therethrongh, said disks having duplicate sets of peripheral characters, said case having transverse slots through which correspondin characters may be simultaneously QXPOSGt, an ink pad contiguous to the characters, an inking roller, and means actuated by the oscillation of the shaft to traverse the roller over the pad and one set of exposed characters.

3. A pencil and like marking device, including a circumferentially slotted segmental case, a turnahle shaft, a. fixed sleeve through which the shaft is turnable, disk segments loosely mounted upon the sleeve, registering with the case slots and having keys projecting therethrough, said disks lraving duplicate sets of peripheral characters, said case having transverse slots through which corresponding characters may be simultaneously exposed, an ink pad contiguous to the characters, an inking roller, means actuated by the oscillation of the shaft to traverse the roller over the pad and one set of exposed characters, an impression bar movable in line with the exposed characters, and means actuated by the rotation of the shaft to impress an interposed article upon the type characters.

4. A pencil marking device comprising a scgn'iental case, a'shat't turnahle therein, a fixed sleeve through which the shaft extends. segmental disks loosely turnable upon the sleeve. having duplicate sets of periphcral cha'actcrs contiguous to the case, an inking pad, a roller movable over the pad and one set of characters, arms turnable about the shaft, in which arms the roller is journaled, a fulcrumed lever adapted to engage said arm. and a cam arm movable with the shaftand engageable to actuate the lever.

5. A pencil marking device comprising a segmental case, a shaft turnable therein, a fixed sleeve through which the shaft extends, segmental disks loosely turnable upon the sleeve, having duplicate sets of peripheral chaiacters contiguous to the case. an inking pad, a roller movable over the pad and one set of characters, arms turnable about the shaft, in which arms the roller is journaled, a fulcrumed lever adapted to engage said arm, a cam arm. movable with the shaft and engageable to actuate the lever in one direction. and a spring by which the arms and roller are returned to the pad when released from direct pressure.

6. A pencil marking device comprising a segmental case, a shaft turnable therein, a fixed sleeve through which the shaft extends. segmental disks loosely turnable upon the sleeve, having duplicate sets of peripheral characters contiguous. to the case, an inking pad, a roller movable over the pad and one, set of characters. arms turnable about the shaft, in which arm-3 the roller is journalcd, a. fulcrumcd lever adapted to engage said arm, a cam arm movable with the shaft and cngageahle to actuate the lever,

an incline over which the pencils are delivered transversely above the marking character, and means to retain them in position while being impressed.

7. A pencil marking device comprising a segmental case, a shaft turnable therein, a fixed sleeve through which the shaft ex tends, segmental disks loosely tnrnable upon the sleeve, having duplicate sets of peripheral characters contiguous to the case, an inking pad, a roller movable over the pad and one set of characters, arms turnable about the shaft, in which arms the roller is journaled, afulcrumed lever adapted to engage saidarm, a cam arm movable with the shaft and engageable to actuate the lever, an incline over which the pencils are delivered transversely above the marking char acter, means to retain them in position while being impressed, an impression bar alined with the pencil position, a lug turnable with the shaft, and connecting links be tween the bar and lug.

8. A pencil marking device comprising a tends, segmental disks loosely turnable upon the sleeve, having duplicate setsof peripheral characters contiguous to the case, an inking pad, a roller movable over the pad and one set of characters, arms turnable about the shaft, in which arms the roller is journaled, a fulcrumed lever adapted to engage said arm, a cam arm movable with the shaft and engageable to actuate the lever, an incline over which the pencils are delivcred transversely above the marking characters, a carriage movable with the inking roller and having upturned stops controlling the forward movement of the pencil.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

FREDERICK C. WILLIAMS.

Witnesses:

CHARLES A. PENFIELD, CHARLES EpE MAN. 

